Asked “what do we have to do differently” regarding China policy, Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper told former Trump Administration official Sebastian Gorka that there needs to be a lot more oversight of Chinese activities in the United States. From investment in our infrastructure to propagandizing in schools, the government and public need to know a lot more about what this aggressive foreign government is doing inside our borders.

To do this, Horace said we also need to overcome the rhetoric of liberal critics offering options from unnecessary extremes.

“The left tells us we have false choices. One is that we have to go to war. Or two is we have to appear and do nothing,” Horace said on Gorka’s “America First” podcast on the Salem Radio Network.

Horace said that Chinese expansion can be monitored through a more rigorous use of existing oversight mechanisms. He suggested reforming the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States  (CFIUS) process of monitoring international business transactions that may have national security implications. This is the process that was not properly employed when the Obama Administration allowed Russian business interests to obtain inordinate interests in American uranium holdings.